What is the point or shutting anything down for a month, week?

It’s to limit contact between people as much as possible.

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Covers them from a trial lawyer's perspective. Truth being, there is nothing a government can do to stop an air transmitted virus. It is here with us. Just use common sense, which seems to be in short supply.

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Too many people are either stupid or selfish!

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You don't say.

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Okay Dr Quackenbush, explain why closing will help.

Won't they just get infected when they return to work/school/resorts?

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air transmitted virus

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The virus is not airborne, at least most reliable sources don't have evidence that it is.

But it survives for lengthy periods of time on cardboard, glass, wood, metal, paper.

Someone with it (or just a carrier of it) coughs into their hand, or scratches their nose, then touches a door handle or a self checkout or grocery cart handle or stair rail. Then 20 people touch that same surface over the next 2 hours. It's going to transmit to some of those people if they don't immediately wash their hands well, and instead touch their eyes, nose, or mouth.

I guess you could look at it from my perspective: I’m relatively healthy otherwise but have suffered slight fever, coughing, congestion, aching, and diarrhea over the past couple of weeks. Tested negative for flu and my doctor is hesitant to send me for caronavirus test because the symptoms aren’t severe enough.

But, it’s certainly possible that I have a strain of the virus. So, with everything shut down, I’m not interacting with several hundred people that I’d otherwise come into contact with—at things like an LSU baseball game or maybe a St. Patty’s Day parade. Consequently, I’m less likely to pass the virus off to older folks for whom infection could cause death.

Maybe (hopefully) I don’t have it, but, if I do, the shutdown will certainly impede the virus from getting transmitted from me on to someone else. And, if I understand correctly, the point is not to fully prevent folks from ever getting the virus but to slow it down so that everyone doesn’t show up at the ER simultaneously.

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I admit I'm not a biologist or medical person but what good will it do to shut down stuff for a while?
The virus isn't going away just because people don't to crowded public places.

What am I missing?

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fricking Christ are people really this stupid?

If 1000 people get sick in a week or the same 1000 get sick over a month, which do you think is easier to treat?

Obviously. Limit contact with others genius

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How many of the same stupid arse thread do we have to endure

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Hopefully we get them all at once and they aren't spread out over the next few weeks or months

“Flattening the curve.”

These actions are being taken to slow the spread and space out the cases. This will help healthcare system not be overwhelmed immediately. They are trying to reduce the spread of each case to less than 1 additional infection. Each case on average infects another 2 to 3 people without mitigation. Measles does 12!

I would assume these actions get more restrictive over the next few weeks. At some point a vaccine will be developed, many people will recover, toilet paper will be on shelves.